My 8 month old hates food!
My son will be 8 months in a couple days and he absolutely hates food. Homemade… store bought, he is just not interested. I have to trick him into eating it, I pretend like I’m giving him water from a straw and then put the food in his mouth 😩. He’s starting to catch on now and will close his mouth TIGHT. It takes us three days to finish a jar of baby food!! And sometimes I just throw it away. Am I the only one dealing with this ? Any tips?
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My son just turned 7 months and we never get a ton of food in. Maybe a 5-6 bites and we are done. So I’d imagine a jar of baby food would take us a week.
Thankfully breastmilk is the main food source.
Have you tried baby led large solid foods? Like half a cucumber? We don’t do purées unless it’s a dipper to something larger.
Have you tried the baby lead weaning method? Maybe he just doesn’t like the texture of purées? 🤷🏾♀️ None of my kids really took to puréed food. I just went straight to solids.
I’ll have to keep trying. Every time I dice up his food super small he just gags 😩
My son is 7 months and same thing you arent alone and breast milk/formula is most important right now luckily!
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For those who have seen and commented on my last post about my husband and the lack of taking care of our son me and him had a very long talk about it and essentially I told him if he does it start helping or doing better I am taking our son and leaving and apparently that got through to him very clearly and I gave him one last chance I had to go to an appointment that was about an hour and a half to two hours long the place was like right down the road from my house so I walked there and walked back because I like walking but I gave that time to my husband to see if he has the chance of actually stepping up or not and he did extremely well our son was in a clean diaper and was happy and fed and later on that night I went back and watched our baby monitor and he was actually doing what I asked him to do so clearly I got through to him but Idk if I can day I fully trust him yet
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My 8 month old hates food!
My son will be 8 months in a couple days and he absolutely hates food. Homemade… store bought, he is just not interested. I have to trick him into eating it, I pretend like I’m giving him water from a straw and then put the food in his mouth 😩. He’s starting to catch on now and will close his mouth TIGHT. It takes us three days to finish a jar of baby food!! And sometimes I just throw it away. Am I the only one dealing with this ? Any tips?
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